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Camelopardalis Meteor Shower


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Well, I stayed up until 3am waiting for this "once in a life time" show to start... nada... zip... quite literally zero meteors that evening.

 

So instead I decided to make my own.

 

Sigma 10mm slowly zoomed to 20mm over 30 seconds at ISO 200 and f/4.5

 

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 That looks so cool! Very creative way to make your own. :)

 

I guess I'm glad I didn't go out looking for it.

 

Did you zoom it manually? I've tried that before, and I guess I'm shaky or something, but my lines get terribly squiggly--and not just a little. It looks like a drunk zoomed it.



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Cool!! Neat shot.


I was up, but we were getting thunderstorms.

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Yeah, you guys didn't miss anything. I saw 3 faint meteors and that was it.

 

 

Did you zoom it manually? I've tried that before, and I guess I'm shaky or something, but my lines get terribly squiggly--and not just a little. It looks like a drunk zoomed it.

 

I did do the zoom manually. Clicked the shutter and very gently made contact with the zoom-ring using both hands. Gently rotated, trying to be as smooth as possible, and viola!

 

Here's another one were I was a little less successful in keeping the camera steady:

 

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And one with no rotation or color correction/changes at all:

 

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I like all 3- especially the last, though the effect is the most creative.  Thanks for sharing!



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Thanks :)

 

I had fun shooting these even though the meteor shower was a disappointment.



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Love the last one,  we didn't get anything down here either. Did get a few planes though.